Yorkshire Trivia
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
Whip Ma Whop Ma Gate, York YO1 8BL
Whip Ma Whop Ma Gate
is a small street in central
York
. It was the site of a whipping
post/pillory
during the
medieval period
. The street used to be called Whitnourwhatnourgate, meaning "neither one thing, nor the other" in
Norse
.
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